US' target is Pakistan's nuclear programme: Hafiz Saeed

Lahore: The US has “moved ahead” of India in its enmity with Pakistan and wants to damage its nuclear programme, JuD chief Hafiz Saeed said. “America has moved ahead of India in its enmity with Pakistan. It carried out drone attack in Balochistan to kill Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour to test Pakistan whether it would give any reaction. [caption id=“attachment_2830450” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A file photo of Hafiz Saeed, head of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa organisation. Reuters[/caption] “In fact, the US’ target is Pakistan’s nuclear programme and it (the US) wants to damage it with the help of Israel and India,” Saeed said while addressing the activists of Falah-e-Insanyat Foundation (FIF), a subsidiary of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, at the JuD headquarters in Chauburji in Lahore on Saturday. His comments came a day after Pakistan lodged its protest to a visiting high-level US delegation over the 21 May drone strike in Balochistan, which killed Mansour. The delegation - which included senior Director forAfghanistan and Pakistan at the US National Security Council Peter Lavoy and Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Olson - was told that the strike “vitiated bilateral ties”. Saeed, who is carrying a USD 10 million bounty on his head in connection with his role in the 2008 Mumbai attack, further said: “It is our duty to tell the people of this country about the dangerous nexus of the US, Israel and India against Pakistan.” He asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to stop looking at the US for elimination of terrorism in the country. Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, also alleged that India is installing missile system at its airports to target Pakistan’s nuclear programme.